Alexander Bohn

I originally built Writing Design Criticism as a repository for the articles produced by me and my classmates in a class of the same name, taught by design writer David Sokol at RISD during the Spring 2006 semester. After the class ended, I continued to maintain the site as a home for design criticism articles, with Mr. Sokol's curatorial assistance. One can find articles on Writing Design Criticism have been published on everything from SpeakUp to 2+3D.

The site itself is extremely lightweight: with the exception of the 2x2-pixel backgrounds and the header image file, everything you see on Writing Design Criticism is pure HTML and CSS. Since Writing Design Criticism is a text-heavy site aimed at a visually oriented audience, a background script is employed to reveal inline HTML links only within the section in which the mouse is focused.

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Class web site for a introductory Wintersession class on web design, which I co-taught with Brandon Miller at RISD. Since our curriculum focused on web standards, it was instrumental for us to lead by example and furnish our students with a functional standards-based site.

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Design and implementation of an intranet website for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Pictured here is a mockup of the design; the actual site is a private resource used the company's archivists, costume designers, lighting designers, dancers, choreographers, and administrators to share media and information. The data managed by Merce.net goes back to the 1940s and spans a panoramic array of media; as such, accessability and search features were high priorities.

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